Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104

STS-61-B

Lockheed Space Operations Company was scheduled to launch a Space Shuttle Atlantis OV-104 rocket as part of the
STS-61-B mission. The launch window for the Communications mission was on Tue, Nov 26th, 1985, 7:29 PM EST from Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL. The status of the launch was Success.
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Mission

STS-61-B

STS-61-B was the twenty-third space shuttle mission and the second for the Space Shuttle Atlantis. The shuttle was launched for Kennedy Space Center and the shuttle deployed three communicates satellites. It also tested techniques for constructing structures in orbit. This mission marked the quickest turnaround of a shuttle, just 54 days elapsed beetween this launch and Atlantis' previous mission.